Hanns Alexander

Hanns Alexander (6 May 1917-23 December 2006) was a German Jewish refugee in the United Kingdom who was responsible for the arrests of Gauleiter Gustav Simon and Commandant Rudolf Hoess after World War II.

Biography
Hanns Alexander was born on 6 May 1917 in Berlin, German Empire to a family of German Jews. In 1936, the Alexander family left Nazi Germany after the passage of the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws, and he volunteered for the British Army during World War II. After the war, Alexander became a Nazi hunter and captured Gauleiter Gustav Simon and Commandant Rudolf Hoess, and he returned to London, where he died in 2006.